The Rondelet is a French poetry form meaning “round.” It is one seven-line stanza with a 3-peat refrain, using only two rhymes. Each line has 8 syllables, and each refrain has 4 syllables with a pattern of 4/8/4/8/8/8/4. The refrain lines may be varied with punctuation use, but must use the exact same words. The rhyme scheme (with refrain) is A/b/A/a/b/b/A.

Although by no means a philanthropist, I have been very involved with big-hearted people in the last two days. Firstly, I attended my VIEW club dinner. This is a club set up to support the Smith Family, which, in turn, raises money for the disadvantaged. We are quite a small group, but we pay all the expenses of one poor school-child, for instance. Then, yesterday I was asked to read some of my poems at a Craft Group dinner. I went expecting another small group, but there were over a hundred women there, who meet regularly to pursue their hobby, chat and support the local hospitals. I was amazed when the President read out the statistics! Items made and sold at the hospital raise an enormous amount of money. We tend to see so many bad-doers on TV that we forget that there are millions of worthy people on earth. Here were two of them dressed to kill!

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Born in England in 1931. Evacuated in World War 2. Trained as a teacher at Brighton Training College, Sussex. Taught in London. Moved to Zimbabwe. Seven years later worked on a mail ship. Married Malcolm in Capetown. Two children, Rebecca and Greg. Moved to Australia in 1974. After retirement worked for a publisher. Three grandsons, Blake, Harry and Max. Disabled by stroke in 2013. Now in wheelchair with husband as carer..